Wanderer

[stars-bean]

Moomin | Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka (1990 - 1991) dir. Hiroshi Saitō and Masayuki Kojima

[cassandracalin]

Board game night

[beardedmrbean]

[paulthebukkit]

[sleepybutches]

oh you’re straight? so you’re kind of, like, half-bi?

[sakuchanposts]

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Backwater (details) by Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923)

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

"Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you".

–Fyodor Dostoyevksy

[theparisianscent]

[thememedaddy]

[siir-poesia]

[lvgvcy-deactivated20260523]

If I'm arguing I care, if I'm silent, I'm done

[anexperimentallife]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[bedjacket]

[otteroftheworld]

My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.

[dirtyfnafconfessions]

how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen

[giraffepoliceforce]

I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.

Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.

And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.

Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.

[dk-thrive]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity (Trinity University Press, October 11, 2016) (via Alive on All Channels)

[drizzlingtears]

Roads to Nowhere